Piece
Transferred to MPKK 1/15
Catalogue reference: FO 78/2689
Date: 1876-1877.
Transferred to MPKK 1/15
Item
East Africa. 9 sheets of maps, diagrams and photographs relating to the Uganda Railway...
Catalogue reference: MPKK 1/14/3-11
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- MPKK 1/14/3-11
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1900
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Description (What the record is about)
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East Africa. 9 sheets of maps, diagrams and photographs relating to the Uganda Railway (showing territory now in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda). (3) Plate I. 'Mombasa-Victoria Nyanza [Uganda] Railway': map showing the routes originally suggested by Captain Macdonald, Royal Engineers, and the route definitely adopted; scale: 1:1,000,000. (4) Plate II. Detailed elevation section of the route. (5) Plate III. 'Section of pile of temporary bridge': photograph. (6) Plate IV. Graph showing the length of track built, the amount of locomotives and rolling stock acquired, and the numbers of people employed, for the years 1896-1900. (7) Plate V. 'Salisbury Bridge': photograph. (8) Plate VI. 'Tsavo Bridge': photograph. (9) Plate VII. 'Method of Erection of Viaducts in the Descent to the Floor of the Great Rift Valley': sheet of 3 diagrams. (10) Plate VIII. 'Incline No. 1A': photograph. (11) Plate IX. 'Incline No. 1A. Carriers Crossing': photograph.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Printed
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- Open Document, Open Description
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East Africa. 9 sheets of maps, diagrams and photographs relating to the Uganda Railway...
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